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One day the Lord Jesus was invited to dinner by a rich man whose name was Simon.
Perhaps this rich man asked Jesus to dinner because he wished to see Him do some miracle-something wonderful which no one else could do; or he may have imagined that people would think more of himself if he had Jesus for a guest; at any rate, by what we read afterwards, I am afraid Simon the Pharisee did not invite Jesus because he loved Him.